Overture to a Dance of Locomotives Summary

Written at the end of 1916 and the beginning of 1917, "Overture to a Dance of Locomotives" remains one of Williams' most intriguing poems, as it signifies a number of different things to various readers. Although the poem did not appear in print until 1921 in his collection of poems Sour Grapes, the poem did make an appearance when Williams read it in New York City at the 1917 Independents Exhibition held by the Society of American...

William Carlos Williams Biographies (7)

William Carlos Williams (1883-1963), American writer and pediatrician, developed in his poetry a lucid, vital style that reproduced the characteristic rhythms of American speech.William Carlos William...
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William Carlos Williams has always been known as an experimenter, an innovator, a revolutionary figure in twentieth-century American poetry. Yet in comparison to artists of his own time who sought a n...
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William Carlos Williams has been considered one of America's foremost modernists, perhaps the quintessential avant-gardist, one who has had a profound influence on subsequent generations of writers. T...
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Writing his first article on poetry in A.R. Orage's magazine the New Age, F. S. Flint seized upon a recently published book of Japanese poetry in translation, Sword and Blossom, and wrote feelingly of...
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One should perhaps always resist the temptation to sum up a writer's life and work, his "essence," by way of a single revealing anecdote. In the case of William Carlos Williams, however, a story Kenn...
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Best known as a poet, William Carlos Williams was an accomplished writer in many genres. He produced twenty-three volumes of poetry, five collections of short fiction, six novels, seven books of nonfi...
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Biography EssayOne should perhaps always resist the temptation to sum up a writer's life and work, his "essence," by way of a single revealing anecdote. In the case of William Carlos Williams, however...
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